Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!nosc!humu!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Is DOS under Unix immune? Message-ID: <1990Aug4.003520.4513@pegasus.com> Date: 4 Aug 90 00:35:20 GMT References: Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu Lines: 18 > >We are considering adopting '386 Unix in the lab, but I'm curious >about something. Are the DOS under Unix implementations immune to the >usual PC viruses? If so, how (in a nutshell)? If not, is the Unix >filesystem safe at least? [...] > Yes they can provide additional security against that sort of thing, just like pc-nfs. The binaries can be write protected from the Unix side so that a virus or whatever can't modify them. I'm not sure if you can write-protect the operating system, if so that would be a good protection as well. -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com